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Castle Season 2 Episode 4

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00:00There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people.
00:03Psychopaths and mystery writers.
00:05I'm the kind that pays better.
00:06Who am I?
00:07I'm Rick Castle.
00:08Castle.
00:09Castle.
00:09I really am ruggedly handsome, aren't I?
00:12Every writer needs inspiration, and I've found mine.
00:14Detective Kate Beckett.
00:15Beckett.
00:16Beckett.
00:16Nicky Heath.
00:17The character he's basing on you.
00:18And thanks to my friendship with the mayor, I get to be on her case.
00:21I'd be happy to let you spank me.
00:23And together we catch killers.
00:24Make a pretty good team, you know, like Starsky and Hutch.
00:27Turner and Hooch.
00:28You do remind me a little of Hooch.
00:30Oh, oh.
00:37Everybody settle down.
00:38Quiet down, please.
00:39Come to the front.
00:40You know your assigned seats.
00:41Go on the other one.
00:43Careful.
00:46Take your seats.
00:47Now listen.
00:48If you remember, the last time we spoke with Fletcher, he had just entered the polar ice cap from Greenland
00:53right here, headed toward the North Pole.
00:56Remember?
00:57Now he was supposed to ski about 10 miles a day.
01:00Which would have put him right about here.
01:06Oh, good.
01:07Right on time.
01:08Now listen, everyone.
01:09Remember, Fletcher can't hear us.
01:11Right?
01:12So no yelling out questions.
01:14Especially you, Khalil.
01:17Hey, kids.
01:19Hi, it's your pleasure.
01:21I don't know if you can tell, but a blizzard just blew in about an hour ago.
01:26And let me tell you, it wasn't easy setting up camp in 50 mile an hour winds.
01:30Good thing I was able to buy such a strong tent with all the money you raised.
01:36Must be a polar bear out there looking for a little bit of trouble, huh?
01:40Anyway, I want to tell you about this herd of caribou I saw yesterday while I was out skiing.
01:46There were 12 of them, including four calves, who had just started to throw the velvet on their horns.
01:52Oh, talk about cute.
01:53So, there I am.
01:55I'm trying to pull out my camera when...
01:58Wait, what are you...
01:59No, no, no, don't, don't, don't...
02:18Hi, I'm Dylan. I'm here for Alexis.
02:22I'm her new violin teacher.
02:23Dylan, hi. Thanks for coming.
02:27Dad, let him in.
02:29Yeah.
02:34What happened to Olga?
02:37She retired.
02:38So you went male model?
02:39Dylan was a Juilliard. He's a musical prodigy.
02:42I was lucky to get a lesson with him.
02:44Prodigies are supposed to be all nerdy and awkward, not that.
02:49Well, hello there. I'm Martha.
02:52Hi, Dylan.
02:53Dylan!
02:54Oh, Alexis tells me you're very talented.
02:57And very strong, I might have.
03:01Well, why don't we get started? I can assess where you are and then tomorrow we can start your lessons.
03:06Does that sound good?
03:07Yeah, my room's upstairs.
03:09Lead the way.
03:10Uh, why don't you do it down here? You know how I love watching you play.
03:15Nonsense.
03:17She needs privacy, not a performance.
03:20Spoken with true artistic insight.
03:22Well, thank you. I'm an actor. So, stands to reason.
03:26Well, he's a charming young man.
03:29Well, I'm off.
03:31See you later, darling.
03:34I liked Olga.
03:38Castle.
03:42Hey, Mike.
03:43Where's the body?
03:45You didn't tell him?
03:46Tell me what?
03:47They were in the surprise.
03:48What surprise?
03:51Hey, kids.
03:52I don't know if you can tell, but a blizzard just blew in about an hour ago.
03:57Do we have jurisdiction in the North Pole?
03:59Wait for it.
04:0050 mile an hour winds.
04:01Good thing that-
04:02A caribou I saw yesterday while I was out skiing.
04:06Okay, there comes the guy.
04:07Including four calves who had just started to grow the belt on the floor.
04:10We see the gun?
04:11Trying to pull out my camera when-
04:14Wait, what are you-
04:15No, no, no, don't, don't, don't!
04:17That was awesome!
04:18I mean, well, obviously it was horrible, but that's not the Arctic.
04:22That's an apartment, but where?
04:24Ryan rewinded. I thought I saw something when the camera was falling.
04:29Stop. Right there. Out the window in the background.
04:35That's classic Upper West Side architecture.
04:37Take a picture of it. Send it to the precinct. See if any of the beat cops recognize it.
04:41On it.
04:46Mr. Wheeler, I'm Detective Kate Beckett. This is Rick Castle.
04:50I just don't understand. Everything seemed to not open up.
04:53He had a Yale PhD.
04:55When was the first time that you met Mr. Fletcher?
04:57A few months ago, he came into the school and made a presentation to the school board.
05:01A month-long, one-man trip to the North Pole.
05:03We agreed to help fund the expedition in exchange.
05:06Fletcher said he would give a unique educational experience for the kids,
05:09including weekly video reports from the Arctic Circle.
05:12How much did you raise?
05:13Between our school and others in the area, around $50,000.
05:16Hmm.
05:17Wow.
05:17It's a lot of pemmican.
05:19A basic staple of the Polar Explorer diet, high in fat and protein.
05:23Basically, it's beef and grease kind of melted together into a jerky.
05:26You think it'd be disgusting, but surprisingly, I'll fill you in later.
05:30When was the last time you saw Mr. Fletcher?
05:32He came by the school two weeks ago to pick up a stack of letters the kids wrote to him
05:36for his trip.
05:36He was supposed to get on the plane to Greenland the next day.
05:40We got an idea on the building, 79th and Amsterdam.
05:42All right, tell Lainey that we'll meet her there.
05:48Unicorn said the door was unlocked when they got here.
05:51Either the victim left it that way, or...
05:52Or, killer had a key.
05:54All right, talk to the neighbors, see if Fletcher had any regular visitors.
05:57But first, I'm thinking our Vic might have been a squirrel.
06:00Hmm, I'll take the bedroom.
06:02I'm sorry, a squirrel?
06:04Likes to hide his nuts for the winter.
06:07And by nuts, you mean...
06:08Valuables, secrets, anything a guy living a lie wouldn't want someone to find.
06:16Oh, yeah.
06:22This reminds me of that movie, Capricorn One.
06:25That was like a Winterland twist.
06:26Hmm.
06:29Lainey, what do we got?
06:31Victim was shot once in the face with a large caliber bullet.
06:34Ouch.
06:35Oh, I don't think he felt much with a bullet that size.
06:37Face shots usually indicate a deep anger in the shooter.
06:41Literally trying to erase what makes the victim a person.
06:44Well, con men do leave a wake of angry people.
06:46It's amazing that this is all it took to fake two weeks in the Arctic.
06:50Mm-hmm.
06:51Wonders of modern technology.
06:53A lot of criminals today don't take advantage.
06:54I blame the parents.
06:57Give this to Fletcher.
06:59He did do his homework.
07:02Oh!
07:03This is a library book.
07:05Something tells me he wasn't planning on returning it.
07:09You were right.
07:10Look at our little squirrels hide in the airbag.
07:16Something tells me our Stephen Fletcher wasn't actually Stephen Fletcher.
07:20Multiple IDs usually indicates multiple cons.
07:23I'd say our killer is someone who Fletcher duped.
07:25From the height of the bullet hole in the tent,
07:27I'd say our shooter was anywhere between five, three, and six feet.
07:31Mm-hmm.
07:31I guess that rules out the first graders.
07:33Unless one was standing on another one's shoulders.
07:35Hiding inside of a trench coat, lady.
07:37Diabolical.
07:38I like it.
07:39Lainey, I'm gonna need a rush on the fingerprints.
07:41We're gonna need to know who our victim really was.
07:43Okay.
07:43Let's bag all of this, get it back to the station.
07:45Right on.
07:46Mm-hmm.
07:48Just like camp, huh?
07:49What if I climb in the tent?
07:51That'd be true.
07:52Couple of U.S. passports.
07:55See ya.
07:56Oh, oh, oh, oh.
07:57Oh, thank you.
07:59So have you read it?
08:00Read what?
08:01The book.
08:02What book?
08:04Oh, your book.
08:06Heatwave.
08:11Well?
08:12I haven't gotten to it yet.
08:15What do you mean you haven't gotten to it yet?
08:16I'm sorry.
08:17I've just been so busy with work I haven't had time.
08:19You were all over me to get a copy of that book.
08:22Do you have any idea how many hoops I had to jump through?
08:24Just so my editor wouldn't send an armed guard to watch over you while you read it?
08:28The least you could do was to...
08:31Oh.
08:33Oh, I see what you're doing.
08:35I'm not doing anything.
08:36Oh, yes you are.
08:37Yes you are.
08:38You're trying to push my buttons, but it's not gonna work.
08:40Really?
08:41Hm?
08:42Because it seems to be working just great.
08:46Now if you'll excuse me, I have to input these IDs into VICAP to see if any of Fletcher's other
08:50identities have been flagged.
08:51What do you want all this stuff from Fletcher's apartment?
08:53Right here.
08:54How come you have to carry everything?
08:57Ryan hurt his back.
09:00Oh, we checked with all Fletcher's neighbors.
09:03None of them could remember seeing anyone but Fletcher coming and going from the apartment.
09:06And we called Yale.
09:08Turns out Stephen Fletcher does have a PhD in wildlife biology, only...
09:11Their Stephen Fletcher is a seven foot tall albino.
09:15No.
09:15300 pound Hawaiian, but close.
09:17You know what I don't get?
09:18Mm-hmm.
09:18Why go to so much trouble to create such an elaborate scam?
09:21Fletcher must have spent weeks going through all the prep work.
09:23I can give you 50,000 reasons why.
09:25Yeah, but for con men, it's not just about the money.
09:28I mean, for them, it's about the game.
09:31The thrill they get from pulling a con, it's like a drug high.
09:35Con men was on drugs?
09:36No, sir.
09:37Castle is just giving a psychological insight based on his extensive experience as a fraud.
09:42Well, I just fielded several phone calls from some very embarrassed private schools and they want this solved quickly and
09:47quietly.
09:48Unfortunately, it looks like our con man was running a whole slew of cons.
09:51Unraveling all of them and finding the killer is going to take some time.
09:55Or maybe not.
09:58One of Fletcher's aliases conned a woman named Patty Schultz out of her life savings about a year ago.
10:02Sounds like a motive for murder to me.
10:04Apparently, Ms. Schultz has spent several stints in Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
10:10And none of them voluntary.
10:14Straight jacket.
10:25Mrs. Schultz, I'm Detective Beckett.
10:26Is this about Sanchez?
10:28Because, you know, I only hit him because he was drilling holes in the wall to watch me exercise.
10:33This isn't about Sanchez.
10:34This is about him.
10:36Stephen Fletcher.
10:37Also known as Stephen Miles.
10:40Are you arresting me?
10:42Why would we arrest you?
10:44Because I killed him.
10:46Um, Mrs. Schultz, you've just confessed to a crime.
10:49I'm going to read you your mind.
10:50In my mind.
10:52Did you just say you killed him in your mind?
10:55I meditate an hour every day.
10:58It's doctor's orders.
11:00And all I think about are my cats.
11:04And killing this son of a bitch.
11:06And it finally worked, didn't it?
11:09Well, I'm not sure.
11:10How did you kill him in your mind?
11:12With a belt sander.
11:14Where were you at 9am this morning?
11:17At the vet.
11:18Mr. Muffins has high cholesterol.
11:20Okay, thank you. We're done.
11:21How did, how did Mr. Fletcher con you?
11:23He said he was a cryogenist and that he would freeze me and my cats
11:28so we could be resurrected when science had conquered the death barrier.
11:32And you believed him?
11:33Have you ever been duped?
11:35I've been married twice.
11:37You think I got suckered because I'm crazy?
11:39Well, you're wrong.
11:41I have paranoid personality disorder,
11:44which makes me the most suspicious person you've ever met.
11:47And Stephen just made me feel safe for the first time in years.
11:51And then he vanished with $60,000 in my money.
11:58That man could sell sand to a camel.
12:03For coming.
12:07Can I see his body?
12:14Uh, no.
12:18You know, I can't help but be a little impressed with our boy Fletcher.
12:22Please tell me you're kidding.
12:23Not on a personal level.
12:24Just more of a professional one.
12:26I mean, one storyteller to another.
12:28This guy's a master.
12:28He's a leech.
12:29He preys on innocent victims and ruins their lives.
12:32It looks like our leeches jumped up to the major leagues.
12:35What do you mean?
12:35One of Fletcher's identities was recently engaged to be married.
12:38To Elise Finnegan.
12:39Wait, Finnegan, where do I know that name?
12:41Her family owns Hapap Park Avenue South.
12:43My lovely bride-to-be's worth a cool hundred million bucks.
12:46Ooh, now I'm really impressed.
12:48He wasn't a con man.
12:50I'm afraid he was, Elise.
12:52We've already uncovered two other scams and I'm certain we'll find more.
12:55No. No, I don't believe you.
12:57Elise.
12:58It's okay, Sue.
12:59They were getting married next weekend.
13:02Elise was so excited.
13:04How long did she know Fletcher?
13:06Six months.
13:07That's quite the whirlwind romance.
13:08It was love at first sight for both of them.
13:10So there were no clues that he was setting her up?
13:13Stories that didn't add up or bills he couldn't pay?
13:15He insisted on paying for the wedding.
13:18Even though the cost was substantial.
13:21He seemed to live to make her happy.
13:24That's because making her happy was vital to his con.
13:27You're wrong.
13:29I've been rich my whole life, detective.
13:32So if there's one thing I've learned, it's how to spot a man who's only interested in me for my
13:37money.
13:38Steven wasn't like that.
13:41He loved me for me.
13:43I can't believe how naive she's been.
13:46Even with overwhelming evidence that her fiance was a con man, she still believes he loved her.
13:51People see what they want to see.
13:52That's what con artists prey on.
13:54It's really kind of a psychopathy to be so cold that you can look someone in the eye, tell them
13:59that you love them, and then rob them blind without the slightest remorse.
14:02Whoa.
14:03I just flashed back to the eighth grade.
14:05Sherry Ort.
14:06Broke my heart.
14:07Stole my lunch money.
14:08Beckett?
14:09Yeah, she laughed about it with her friends.
14:11All right.
14:11Thanks.
14:12Well?
14:13No match on Fletcher's fingerprints.
14:15We still don't know his real identity.
14:19What you got?
14:19Trying to find a clue to the con that killed Fletcher, but it looks like our guy was a criminal
14:24overachiever.
14:27What?
14:27Oh, you know those Nigerian email scams?
14:29Oh, Fletcher didn't pull one of those.
14:31No.
14:31It looks like someone tried to pull one on him.
14:33Fletcher conned the guy out of 10 grand.
14:36Man, our boy was good.
14:37Damn good.
14:38Don't be so impressed.
14:39The guy was a criminal.
14:40Oh, no.
14:41There's something about a well-played con that just makes you want to tip your hat, though.
14:45And they have such great names.
14:46The Spanish Prister.
14:47Pig in the Poop.
14:48The Pigeon Drop.
14:49Oh, I love a good con movie.
14:51House of Games.
14:52Catch Me If You Can.
14:53Ocean's Eleven, baby.
14:54Dirty.
14:55Rotten.
14:55Scoundrels.
14:56Mother?
14:58Not mother.
15:00For my money, it starts and it ends with the sting.
15:04How about you, Beckett?
15:05What's your favorite?
15:06I hate con movies.
15:07What?
15:07Really?
15:08Why?
15:08How can you hate the sting?
15:10It's like, what?
15:11Took 20 Oscars?
15:12Something like that.
15:13Because the only people that get conned in a con movie are the audience members.
15:17You can't invest in anything because nothing is real.
15:21That's what makes it fun?
15:22Well, it wasn't fun to these kids.
15:24The ones from Wheeler's class who wrote to Fletcher.
15:27Dear Mr. Fletcher, when do polar bears sleep?
15:30Dear Mr. Fletcher, do penguins really wear tuxedos?
15:33Penguins are South Pole.
15:34Hey, these are six year old kids.
15:36And he scammed them.
15:38You guys still impressed by this dirtbag?
15:40If you were just scamming these kids, why would you write them back?
15:44Because it's all part of the con.
15:46Yeah.
15:47I'm not sure.
15:47I mean, if you were just a greedy monster, would you really bother writing back to all of
15:52them?
15:53He's got a point.
15:53Yeah.
15:54Now he was a sucker.
15:58Sir.
15:59Sucker or no sucker, clearly there's more to this guy than meets the eye.
16:05Busted.
16:08Shut up, Estizito.
16:09Alright, I'm gonna leave you guys to it.
16:12Where you going?
16:13It's early.
16:13I got plans.
16:15Oh, you have a date, don't you?
16:17No.
16:18You liar.
16:18Who's the unlucky guy?
16:19Yeah, right.
16:20See you guys in the morning.
16:21Alright, see you tomorrow.
16:22Careful.
16:25In case of who is it?
16:26I don't know.
16:26Got me.
16:27So, she hasn't mentioned anyone?
16:29In case you haven't noticed, Beckett isn't exactly what you call a sharer.
16:34Why do you care?
16:35Anyway, Castle, do you have some unresolved feelings?
16:38For Beckett?
16:40Yeah.
16:40The woman hates con movies.
16:52Speak to me.
16:55Speak to me.
16:56Read my mind.
16:59Fill your mouth with flesh and wine.
17:07And I'll be yours.
17:10Lord, just give me time.
17:18Give me time.
17:20Give me time.
17:22And I just can't stop.
17:27Lord, I can't stop myself.
17:32I can't stop.
17:35Lord, I can't stop myself.
17:41Oh.
17:53I thought she said her lesson was tomorrow.
17:56Oh, Dylan had a cancellation.
17:57Alexis begged him to let her take the slot.
18:03What are you doing?
18:05Nothing.
18:11Why did you just get so quiet?
18:13Maybe he's teaching her something.
18:15Maybe he's filling her head full of lies.
18:17What are you talking about?
18:19Alright, that's it.
18:20I'm going up.
18:21Oh.
18:23So, when I start the piece, should it be up well?
18:26Uh, yeah, I would.
18:28Okay.
18:28Well, hey, you guys.
18:29I had no idea you were even here.
18:30Well, she's a very talented girl and a real hard worker.
18:34So, um, practice your Saudier and we'll take another stab at Brahms next week.
18:38Okay, great.
18:39Okay, have a good night.
18:40You too.
18:40Night, Dylan.
18:41Bye.
18:44You be safe.
18:49I don't trust him.
18:51What? Why?
18:52What do we really know about this guy?
18:54I know that he's an amazing violinist and a really great teacher.
18:57Olga was a great teacher.
18:59Olga kept a tissue up her sleeve and smelled like hard candy.
19:03What's this about, Dad?
19:05I just don't think that you realize that what you see is not always what you get.
19:08I mean, how do you know that Dylan really goes to Juilliard?
19:11Did you call the school?
19:12No.
19:12Check his transcripts?
19:13No, but Dad, I...
19:14Okay, I don't think we should take any more lessons from this guy until he's been properly vetted.
19:17I want credit check, school reports, maybe even a polygraph.
19:20Okay, you're officially out of control.
19:23No, I'm not.
19:24And back me up here.
19:25You want her violin teacher to take a lie detector test? You're off the reservation, kiddo.
19:29Okay, you know what? You're cut off.
19:30Dad.
19:30No, you know what? I am the grown-up here.
19:33Oh, this is scary.
19:34And I say no more lessons from this guy until we've got him checked out.
19:39What?
19:40I finally find a teacher that I connect with who's as excited about music as I am.
19:45Why are you trying to ruin it?
19:46I'm not. I'm just...
19:49Hey!
19:52What's going on with her?
19:54Besides your unreasonableness, hormones.
19:57What's your excuse?
20:09Okay, Castle.
20:11What was so important that you had to cut my sparring session short?
20:14Just that I cracked this case wide open.
20:17You know the thought of you fighting in a ring with another woman?
20:20Strangely arousing.
20:21Who says I was sparring with a woman?
20:23Oh, your mystery date.
20:25Oh, do I detect some jealousy?
20:27Me jealous?
20:28Ha!
20:29Double.
20:32What if I told you that my date was with your book?
20:36Really?
20:38No.
20:39God, you're easy.
20:41Give me your case breaking information so I can get a cup of coffee.
20:44Well, I went a little daddy dearest on Alexis and it got me thinking.
20:48If I can go this crazy over a violin teacher, how crazy would I go if my daughter was about
20:52to marry a scam artist?
20:54Crazy enough to kill, maybe?
20:56That is...
20:57Inspired.
20:58No.
20:58Brilliant. Genius.
20:59Uh-uh.
21:00Finn.
21:01We don't have the slightest indication that Elise's father knew that Fletcher was a con artist.
21:04Maybe not, but Castle here suggested that we check gun registration records for Jerry Finnegan.
21:10And guess who happens to own the same caliber handgun as our murder weapon?
21:13Who?
21:13Jerry Finnegan.
21:14Shut the front door.
21:16No time for dirty talk. Go get changed.
21:19I keep it locked in the safe. Hasn't been fired in years.
21:23Did anyone else have the combination?
21:25No one.
21:29Hasn't been fired recently? Or cleaned?
21:33I'd like to take it to the lab if you don't mind.
21:35Certainly.
21:36Mr. Finnegan.
21:37Hmm?
21:38One father to another.
21:40I just can't believe that you never had the urge to check out your future son-in-law.
21:45You never thought for a moment that maybe Fletcher wasn't what he was making himself out to be?
21:49I didn't think. I knew.
21:52Two weeks ago I hired a private investigator to look into Steven.
21:56Not that I was suspicious. I wasn't.
21:58I just thought better safe than sorry.
22:01I was shocked when he called to tell me that Steven was a fraud.
22:05Then I got angry.
22:07Please.
22:10Well, I confronted Steven.
22:11I told him I was going to expose him and have the wedding called off.
22:17Well, he begged me not to.
22:20He said he was head over heels in love for the least.
22:24Wanted to spend the rest of his life with her.
22:28I told him I wasn't buying it.
22:31But he promised that he was done with cons.
22:34That the only reason that he was still pretending to be a polar explorer was for the kids.
22:39He didn't want to let them down.
22:41He was a professional liar, Mr. Finnegan.
22:44Yes, I know that.
22:45But what ultimately convinced me was the prenup.
22:49He said I could draw up any document, cut him out of our fortune entirely if I wanted, and he
22:55would sign it.
22:56After a lifetime of greed, he said, he'd finally found something more important than money.
23:03Love.
23:04And you believed him?
23:05Yes, I did.
23:06So I never said a word about it to anybody.
23:11And then when you showed up here yesterday, I...
23:14I just couldn't tell Elise.
23:17The private investigator that you hired, did he take any photographs?
23:21Yes.
23:22He followed Steven for a week.
23:23He offered me the photos, but I said I didn't want them in the house where Elise might see them.
23:29What are you thinking?
23:31That Fletcher's killer might be in one of those photographs.
23:35You think it's possible that Fletcher was telling Jerry the truth?
23:38That he's suddenly a con man with a heart of gold?
23:40No.
23:40That's just another con.
23:41Wait, wait, wait.
23:42You don't think people can change?
23:45No.
23:47I've seen too many repeat offenders to believe for one second that a guy who promises never to beat his
23:51wife again actually won't.
23:54That's a pretty bleak attitude.
23:55Not bleak.
23:56Realistic.
24:00After Mr. Finnegan hired me, I followed your boy night and day.
24:03It became clear pretty fast.
24:05He was a grifter.
24:07Hello?
24:08What?
24:11Isn't that...
24:12Jim Wheeler.
24:13First grade teacher extraordinaire.
24:15When was this taken?
24:17Ten days ago.
24:18When Fletcher was supposed to be in the Arctic.
24:20Looks like Mr. Wheeler was in on the scam.
24:30Um...
24:31Okay, I'm not gonna lie to you.
24:33Really?
24:34Because clearly you're pretty good at it.
24:36Listen, I realized that Fletcher was faking it when I discovered that the pictures in his promotional book glue were
24:41photoshopped.
24:42So you figured you'd make a few bucks rather than, I don't know, protect your students?
24:47No.
24:48I know this sounds crazy, but the kids were learning.
24:52Fletcher loved those kids and they loved him.
24:54Sure, he was faking the trip technically, but he went out of his way to provide a dynamic, fact-filled
24:59presentation.
25:00I just figured if he was making money on it, why shouldn't I?
25:03Nobody was getting hurt.
25:04He was scamming little kids and you were his accomplice.
25:07Any jury in the world would convict you of that.
25:10Jury?
25:11I didn't kill him.
25:13I was standing right here when he was murdered.
25:14Doesn't mean I won't prosecute you for criminal fraud.
25:16Now you want to stay out of jail, you better point us towards Fletcher's killer.
25:20Listen, I swear I don't know who killed him.
25:24Have you spoken to his partner?
25:26Partner?
25:27I guess that's who she was.
25:28She was with him at the cafe when I met him.
25:30She's in the picture.
25:33Where?
25:37Hard to see.
25:38Do you have a magnifying glass?
25:40Better.
25:51That's Elise Finnegan, Fletcher's fiancee.
25:54Who's conning whom here?
25:58Help me out here, Elise.
25:59First you tell me that you have no idea that Fletcher is a con man.
26:03And then I find a picture of you witnessing him make a payoff during one of his scams.
26:07That's not what it was.
26:09Then what was it?
26:10I can't...
26:14Elise, the man that you loved is dead.
26:17I am trying to find his killer.
26:19Help me.
26:25Steven wasn't a con man.
26:27Elise, we...
26:28He wasn't.
26:29He was in the CIA.
26:31This is the best case ever.
26:33What makes you think he was in the CIA?
26:35A month after we started dating, he told me that he couldn't bear lying to me anymore.
26:40He wasn't really a corporate lawyer.
26:43He was a CIA agent on a top secret case.
26:46And what part of this case involves conning first graders?
26:49Well, that was part of his mission.
26:52Next you're gonna tell me that Wheeler was also a secret agent.
26:56Oh, come on.
26:57Think about it.
26:58Wheeler works at the international school.
27:01Half of those students are the children of UN diplomats.
27:04Syria, China, the Middle East.
27:07Getting close to their kids allowed Steven unique access to some of our country's worst enemies.
27:13That is pretty smart.
27:17Steven wasn't killed for being a con man.
27:20He was killed for his intelligence work.
27:24No.
27:25I'm just saying.
27:27No.
27:27You can't deny there's a possibility.
27:28He is not in the CIA.
27:33I'll bet you a dollar.
27:35All right, you're on.
27:39Who are you calling?
27:40My guy in the CIA.
27:42You have a guy in the CIA?
27:44When are you gonna learn? I've got a guy everywhere.
27:47Thai food is pleasing to the tongue.
27:51Secret code.
27:53He'll call me back.
27:56I met Agent Cray when I was researching storm warning that this guy was invaluable for the really hardcore secret
28:02agent stuff.
28:03This guy is a machine.
28:06I've interviewed serial killers, hitmen.
28:09Agent Cray, by far the deadliest man I've ever met.
28:14He once killed a North Korean agent with a melon baller.
28:18It was an ice cream scoop, Castle.
28:20And that information was supposed to remain private.
28:23Sorry.
28:24Agent Cray.
28:25Not quite what I pictured based on Castle's description.
28:28I live in a world where nothing is as it seems, Detective.
28:31For good reason.
28:33Transparency gets you killed.
28:35Didn't you use that line in storm warning?
28:37Yeah.
28:38I used some of your lines in heatwave too, which you'd know if you'd read it.
28:41I read it.
28:42I thought it was terrific.
28:43Especially that sex scene.
28:45Talk about renecy.
28:46Wait, there's a sex scene in the book?
28:49Between us?
28:50There's a sex scene in the book between Nikki Heat and the roguishly handsome reporter who's helping her.
28:54Oh good, so he's nothing like you.
28:56Funny.
28:57Wait, how did you get a copy of the book?
29:02Look, can you just tell us that Fletcher wasn't a spook so we can get on with the case?
29:07Not here.
29:16Get out.
29:23Officially I am not at liberty to confirm or deny whether anyone is an agent.
29:27But unofficially?
29:31We've never heard of your boy.
29:41So cool.
29:43I can't believe Fletcher caught me.
29:45We need to take another run at Elise.
29:47See if there's anything else she's holding out on us.
29:49Dad!
29:51We need to talk.
29:56Sweetie.
29:56Sit.
30:00Dylan called.
30:01Did you call Juilliard and check on him?
30:04Maybe.
30:05I can't believe you.
30:06After I told you how much taking lessons from him means to me.
30:09Sweetie.
30:09No, no, quiet.
30:10Am I a troublemaker dad?
30:12Do I get drunk?
30:13Disobey authority?
30:14Steal police horses?
30:15That-
30:16Naked?
30:16No.
30:17That'd be you.
30:18I seem to be the only person in this family blessed with good judgment and yet you don't
30:22trust me.
30:23I trust you.
30:24It's just, it's a dangerous world out there and people lie.
30:27You don't think I know that?
30:29I'm in high school.
30:30It's like the wild wild west with hormones and I think I'm doing a pretty good job navigating
30:33it.
30:33You are and I'm proud-
30:34Well then why don't you trust me to pick the person who's going to inspire me as an artist?
30:40I love you daddy but I'm not a little girl anymore.
30:43You can't protect me from everything.
30:53She's good.
30:55She took you apart like a pro.
30:57You saw that?
30:58Mhmm.
30:58Through the glass.
31:01It was actually kind of difficult to watch.
31:03Even harder to experience.
31:07So do you need a minute or can we get back to work?
31:10I'll give you a minute.
31:15You're the one who's been pushing her to break the rules and when she suddenly steps outside
31:19of your comfort zone you freak out.
31:21I didn't freak out.
31:22I was...
31:24I freaked out a little, didn't I?
31:26Welcome to parenting a teenage girl.
31:28As someone who used to be one, you have my sympathy.
31:33Detective.
31:35Can we come in?
31:37Sure.
31:46Is everything okay?
31:48It's fine.
31:49We did some checking Elise, Fletcher wasn't in the CIA.
31:53Okay.
31:54Is that all?
31:55I don't understand.
31:56You fight me tooth and nail that he wasn't a con man and now you just give in?
32:00I just...
32:01I just want this whole thing behind me.
32:03There's something you aren't telling us.
32:05I don't know what you're talking about.
32:07Elise, tell them the good news.
32:09What good news?
32:09Nothing.
32:10Fletcher's alive.
32:13Best case ever.
32:18I'm sorry.
32:19I tried to fool you.
32:21It's just...
32:22Steven left me a voicemail a half an hour ago.
32:25And you're sure it was him?
32:27Elise, they're after me.
32:29I'll contact you when I can.
32:31Trust no one.
32:33Okay, I just gotta chill.
32:38That's not possible.
32:40And yet...
32:42But if Fletcher's alive, then who's the dead guy in our morgue?
32:50It's Fletcher, right?
32:52Honestly, I'm not 100% sure.
32:55His prints match the ones found at the apartment,
32:58but we never got a fingerprint match on his real identity,
33:00so I have nothing else to compare it to.
33:02Plus, Fletcher has seven known identities,
33:05and so far, I haven't found a single one that went to the dentist,
33:08so I have no dental records to compare.
33:10Okay, bottom line?
33:11This body could, or could not be, a man whose alias is Steven Fletcher.
33:16But we saw him die.
33:17Or did we?
33:20I hate this case.
33:22I know, isn't it great?
33:25Wait, what are you...
33:26No, no, no, don't, don't, don't!
33:29We don't actually see his murder.
33:31The camera's already fallen when his shot went off.
33:33Well, the body we have doesn't even have a face.
33:35But why?
33:36Fletcher was about to marry into an obscene amount of money,
33:39and the only other scam he had going was at the school.
33:41Why would he just jump ship and fake his death?
33:44It's possible Agent Gray was lying to us about Fletcher,
33:46to protect the mission.
33:47No, he wasn't in the CIA.
33:49The paper trail for the cons is way too extensive.
33:51There's something else that we're not seeing here.
33:53Yeah.
33:54Yeah, one of Fletcher's credit cards was just used to buy a plane ticket.
33:57JFK did your car to Indonesia.
33:58He's making a run for it.
33:59Why Indonesia?
34:00It's a non-extradition country.
34:01What time does the plane leave?
34:02Five o'clock.
34:05Alert DHS and TSA will coordinate a plan of attack on the way.
34:08Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
34:10We also got hits on five other identities.
34:12Credit card reservations for flights out of Newark and Luardia,
34:14car rental reservations out of New York and Philadelphia,
34:16and an Amtrak out of DC.
34:17He's trying to confuse his trail, spread us thin.
34:19Well, it's gonna work.
34:20We don't have resources to cover that territory.
34:22These are just the IDs that we know about.
34:23I guarantee you he's got at least one identity we've never heard of.
34:26So he's gonna get away with this murder?
34:28No.
34:29What do you mean no?
34:30By the time we figure out his real escape route,
34:31he'll be on a beach somewhere laughing at us.
34:33We don't need to figure out his escape route because all roads lead to Elise.
34:38Why would he risk everything by calling Elise?
34:42Sir, I believe he really does love her and he was planning on running away with her.
34:46If we get to Elise, we'll find Fletcher.
34:48Go.
34:50You just missed her.
34:52She left about ten minutes ago after she got another call.
34:55From Fletcher?
34:56She wouldn't say.
34:57She just ran out the door.
34:58But I think she might have written something down by the phone.
35:04What's going on?
35:05Try the old pencil trick, will you?
35:06I know.
35:11Damn.
35:13I'm gonna call in an APB on Elise.
35:15See if we can get lucky at one of the airports.
35:22Or...
35:25What?
35:27Mrs. Finnegan, what is this?
35:28Oh, oh.
35:29That's their engagement album.
35:32It just came.
35:33Sue made it for the wedding.
35:35Every guest was going to get one.
35:37This looks just like the...
35:38The Arctic brochure Fletcher handed out.
35:40You said Sue made this?
35:41Yes, she's a graphic artist.
35:43How long has Sue known Elise?
35:44Oh, I don't know.
35:45A year, maybe?
35:47Sue is Fletcher's partner.
35:48It's the undercover lover con.
35:50Sue is the scout.
35:51She gets close to Elise first,
35:53learns everything there is to know,
35:54paving the way for Fletcher.
35:55Who comes in with a playbook of all of Elise's hopes and dreams,
35:58and voila!
35:59It's love at first sight.
36:01No, no, no.
36:02Something doesn't quite track.
36:04Why would they fake Fletcher's death in such a public way?
36:06They had to know the police were gonna get involved,
36:08exposing their con to a lot of dangerous scrutiny.
36:10Unless Fletcher really is dead.
36:12If her dad is right and Fletcher really fell in love with Elise...
36:16And was going to give up his con man ways...
36:18Then Sue stood to lose a fortune by not finishing the con,
36:20and if Fletcher married Elise,
36:21then Sue had no chance of pulling off the con on her own.
36:23So Sue takes matters into her own hands.
36:25She kills Fletcher, shooting him in the face,
36:27making sure positive ID is impossible.
36:28Bingo.
36:29But what about the phone call from Steven?
36:32Well, she wants to fake it somehow.
36:34Why?
36:36Because...
36:37The con is still on!
36:39If Elise needed money, where would she go?
36:41National Bank and Trust.
36:4284th and Lexington.
36:44Thank you, Mrs. Finnegan.
36:44Save these, their evidence.
36:48Sue!
36:50Is Steven okay?
36:51Yeah, yeah.
36:52He would have called himself, but it wasn't safe.
36:54And he's sure that a million's going to be enough?
36:56It's enough to get you out of the country.
36:57He's got money stashed overseas.
36:59Oh, thanks, Sue.
37:00We need to hurry.
37:01Okay.
37:13Any problems?
37:14No, no.
37:15Ms. Finnegan!
37:19You forgot your phone?
37:20Oh, thank you.
37:22Welcome.
37:24Steven just called.
37:25He wants me to drop the money at the safe house while you go pack.
37:29He said to meet him at Grand Central at 9 after he does one last thing.
37:32And then you two can be together.
37:34Here.
37:36Good luck.
37:36Thanks.
37:55Newspapers?
37:56I didn't think people read those anymore.
38:04Newspapers?
38:05I didn't think people read those anymore.
38:06Out of the car, you.
38:08Come on.
38:09Let me see your hands.
38:10Turn around.
38:12You know, Detective Beckett here didn't think we could con a con artist, but I told her you
38:16just weren't that smart.
38:17You did, after all, fall for the oldest count in the book.
38:20The Lazy Susan?
38:24The Lazy Susan?
38:26It's either that or the Grumpy Beaver.
38:27I always get them mixed up.
38:28Detective.
38:33Thank you so much for your help.
38:34Absolutely.
38:35It's my job to protect our clients.
38:40Well, hang on a second.
38:41I thought you said you hated con movies.
38:44Oh, Castle.
38:45You are such an easy mark, aren't you?
38:47Hey, I got something.
38:53Police are after me.
38:55I'll contact you when I can.
38:57Trust no one.
38:58When you see how it's done, it really takes the magic out of it.
39:02Detective?
39:06Is Steven really dead?
39:09I'm afraid so.
39:13Then it was all a lie.
39:16No, Elise.
39:17You need to know that Steven loved you very much.
39:20He changed his ways because you made him want to be a better man.
39:39No hard date tonight?
39:40No.
39:41Just the paperwork.
39:42One of the many reasons I'm glad I'm not actually a cop.
39:45Uh-huh.
39:46Have a good one.
39:47Yeah, you too.
39:48Okay.
40:17My hand.
40:18Cass, what are you doing here?
40:20I knew you were reading it.
40:21I was...
40:22It's on page 105, by the way.
40:25What?
40:25That sex scene you're looking for.
40:28And Agent Gray was right.
40:29It's steamy.
40:30I wasn't.
40:31See you tomorrow.
41:01Wait, who's getting a listen?
41:03Graham.
41:23I'm sorry for how I acted.
41:26There's no one in the world I trust more than I trust you.
41:30And I'm gonna try to be more respectful.
41:33Just promise me one thing.
41:38Be patient with me.
41:40I've never had a teenage daughter before.
41:45Deal.
41:46Thanks.
41:54Aren't you worried about Dylan's intentions towards Graham?
41:58I'm hoping they involve running away together, but I'm not that lucky.
42:04Speaking of running away, how about we have dinner out?
42:06Yes.
42:07Please.
42:10Oh.
42:11Okay.
42:12Come on.
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